Sundown towns

[Cotton1]

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/e...wn-towns-3658/


AKA: Racial Cleansing
Between 1890 and 1968, thousands of towns across the United States drove out their black populations or took steps to forbid African Americans from living in them. Thus were created “sundown towns,” so named because many marked their city limits with signs typically reading, “$#@!, Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On You In Alix”—an Arkansas town in Franklin County that had such a sign around 1970. By 1970, when sundown towns were at their peak, more than half of all incorporated communities outside the traditional South probably excluded African Americans,


More at link

[John Galt]

That's the best you can do for a thread in the race forum? A title with no comment? Do you have a question, or are you waiting for everyone to show up and deny the issue?

[Cotton1]

That's the best you can do for a thread in the race forum? A title with no comment? Do you have a question, or are you waiting for everyone to show up and deny the issue?

Actually I was doing a search on counties in arkansas with zero blacks. This came up.

As for a question? About what?

As for "deny the issue"? What issue?

[Abby08]

Actually I was doing a search on counties in arkansas with zero blacks. This came up.

As for a question? About what?

As for "deny the issue"? What issue?

Do those counties exist?

From what I remember about Arkansas, there were LOTS of black people.

[Cotton1]

Do those counties exist?

From what I remember about Arkansas, there were LOTS of black people.

In South Arkansas and along the Mississippi River there a lot of them. Mostly farm help. In western Arkansas there are a few. In North Central Arkansas they have counties with like 2 blacks, 28 blacks , 74 blacks.

They tend to congregate with other blacks.

http://www.discover.arkansas.gov/Pop...y-Race-and-Sex

[Abby08]

I was in Lonoke County.....for the most part.

[Cotton1]

I was in Lonoke County.....for the most part.

Oh yea. A lot of blacks in that area. However, if you move about 200 miles out in the burbs you can go 95% white. In 5 years you have to move 210 miles out. 5 more years you have to move 250 miles out (mexicans , you know).

Like Tennessee. Memphis and Nashville used to be 250 miles apart. There has been so much burb hopping they are almost one city now

[Cotton1]